Signed. Sealed. Delivered. It’s Your New Horse Barn.
By Nikki Alvin-Smith

 
The efficient price effective way to develop a horse property from scratch is simpler to navigate today than ever. Gone are the days of endless phone tag, questionable pricing practices and budget woes. Also gone are the days of messy on-site construction, delayed construction timetable and taking a gamble on the final product. Why? Because the modular barn era arrived and with it an ever-increasing amount of choice for the horse barn purchaser.
 
Modular barns tick all the barn buyer boxes:
 
·      Known final price, accurate and to-the-penny
·      Clear cut plans and upgrade costings
·      Massive selection of barn sizes, styles and finishes
·      Quick and easy set up and delivery on site
·      Quality controlled craftsmanship
·      No mess no stress purchasing experience from start to finish
·      Prompt and known timeline for construction completion
 
Over Land, Sea, Air
 
The horse world is very familiar with moving large equine beasts across country and continents. It has been a practice to transport horses through the centuries. Whether that be by home- fashioned carts and crates, galleon ships, rafts and barges or a plush modern day horse box or horse trailer. Even the advent of the aircraft was soon exploited for horse transport.
 
Moving buildings from one place to another, particularly those that serve as animal housing has also been going on successfully in certain communities for centuries. Today the factory-built horse barn together with other segment-designed housing including residential homes and the like, are all readily transported in their various designs and elements over the road.
 
Whether your new modular horse barn arrives by land or sea or even air, you can expect that once it arrives on site the time needed to set it ready and fit for purpose is rapidly executed. Especially if you work with an experienced company with their own on hand trained professionals.

 
Even tight spaces and poor access sites don’t deter the movement of modular buildings. A small mechanized ‘mule’ system is often employed to move a structure from the truck bed to its prepped location. This machine is operated by a single individual using a remote-control device and is quite the marvel to watch.
 

Time Costs Money
 
For the busy horse professional with an equine facility to run having an open slate of land transformed into a working horse farm without any unnecessary hassle of noise and mess on site by buying modular, is a big bonus. Horses don’t like loud noises or a constant influx of changing aspects in their environment. It unsettles them at best and makes them behave dangerously at worst.
 
Time can also cost money. Waiting around for stalls to be built can have the consequence of lost revenues or extra spend for boarding of lesson or performance horses during the interim period between property acquisition and completion of construction of horse housing structures.
 
When it comes to residences for humans on the horse property the Barndominium offers a versatility and budget-friendly way to get everything all set up at once for full operation in a new property. Even the large Barndo can be ready to use onsite very quickly, utilizing the modular method of factory construction.
 

Another advantage of modular structures for horse farm development is the one-stop-shop opportunity that can be enjoyed at the larger modular barn companies like Horizon Structures. When you consider the multiple purchase discount and the ease of working with a single Project Manager for everything required on site right down to equine hay feeders, you can see the obvious benefits of working and keeping everything under one umbrella on the new construction project.
 
Talking of money the modular barn build world also offers another advantage. The funding needed to complete an operational horse farm from scratch will likely need (and ideally for tax reasons would be), best financed at least to some degree. Here’s how to access this advantage.
 
Moving House and Home
 
The development of a new horse farm probably involves moving house and home. This is a time of great emotion, stress and excitement for most horse owners. The optimal ways to do it vary depending on individual circumstances, and there are many ways to think outside the box, including the stall box.
 
However the move happens, knowing that the new property can be efficiently constructed without adding to the myriad of things that need to be addressed when even a local move is involved, is a wonderful way to enjoy the process.
 
Amazing Modular Build Choice
 
You might think that going modular means being subject to a limited choice of barn styles and designs. But you’d be wrong. Not only can you buy both house and horse barn together in one unit such as the Barndominium option, but you can also select any structure online and enjoy shopping from the comfort of wherever you currently call home. These modular delights can include everything from a range of horse barns to kennels, greenhouses, studio sheds, storage buildings, chicken coops even pavilion event spaces and cabins.

 

Here are some examples of barn styles and horse housing solutions you can source online either from stock or custom builds:
 
·      Barndominiums
·      Monitor
·      Low-Profile
·      Double Wide
·      High Profile
·      Center Aisle
·      Timber Frame
·      Shedrow
·      Run-in Sheds
 
Make It Your Own
 
Along with the array of choices design and size wise in the modular industry, horse owners can assure their own individual style is reflected in what they purchase for equine shelter as well as other buildings.
 
Siding and roofing options, special features such as copper cupolas or shutters and a laundry list of colors schemes and finishes both inside and out are on the design table.

 

The modular purchasing option sounds fun to buy and design, and it is. And if you’d like some inspiration here is a marvelous resource you won’t want to miss. Wherever you live and whatever your dream barn looks like no compromises are necessary because it is factory built and delivered over the road. The customization options are extensive. The advantages that modular build presents are overwhelmingly chosen by the modern horse owner as the best way to develop a new equestrian property in today’s marketplace.

 

Don’t be shy to take a look. And to sweeten the pot if you act quickly zero percent financing is also currently available at the leading U.S. modular barn company, Horizon Structures.
 
Like Stevie Wonders song says, “Signed. Sealed. Delivered. I’m Yours.”